# Acceptable Use Policy This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") sets out platform-wide conduct rules for Tor.Live, separate from the [Site Rules](/pages/site-rules) that govern what can be *listed* in the directory. It applies to everything you do on the Service. ## Prohibited conduct You may not: - **Abuse accounts or authentication**: create multiple accounts to evade rate limits, bans, or site caps; share or sell accounts; attempt to guess or brute-force another user's password or recovery phrase. - **Manipulate reputation systems**: use fake accounts, coordinated voting, or paid/incentivized reviews to inflate or deflate karma, ratings, or a site's reputation score. - **Harass or abuse other users**: post threats, hate speech, or content intended to harass, dox, or intimidate another person, whether in a review, comment, or profile field. - **Automate abusively**: scrape the Service outside of the documented crawler API, send automated requests that circumvent rate limits, or use bots to create accounts, sites, or reviews. - **Attack the Service**: probe for or exploit security vulnerabilities without authorization, attempt denial-of-service, or attempt to bypass moderation, authentication, or rate-limiting controls. - **Impersonate**: misrepresent your identity or affiliation, or falsely claim ownership of a site you don't control. ## Enforcement Violations of this AUP may result in content removal, site status changes, rate-limit penalties, or account suspension, at an administrator's discretion and proportional to the severity of the violation. ## Reporting a violation If you encounter conduct that violates this policy, Please report the offending item or open a new ticket.